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Joey Barton on twitter: "Young kid making his debut has made a good tackle. Couple of Hull players trying to get him sent off. My job as captain is to protect him. I've tried to prevent Hull's players influencing referee as u can see by me pushing Bruce away. My actions towards Huddlestone were certainly not malicious, it was a stupid reaction to being barged but I can appreciate it wasn't right. I'm gutted I got sent off. I've let my teammates down today and being someone who puts the team above everything else I'm gutted about that. I've apologised to the lads and would like to apologise to all QPR fans who travelled today."
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For all you JB haters on 12:01 - Feb 23 with 3428 views
If you mean Barton should have stayed focussed and kept his head, you're of course dead right
But I don't care how many games it wins you, I don't want to see QPR players behaving like Hull did, and while I'm at it I don't like divers, I don't like dirty b*stards who try to injure other players, I don't like players surrounding the referee to intimidate him, I don't want us to sign a convicted criminal just because he's cheap and I don't like managers who play stupid games to get an unfair advantage from the ref.
This is football. It's a game for Christ's sake, it's not the defence of Britain in 1940. There are limits to what I want to see QPR players do to win and if that means we lose sometimes so be it, if I'd do anything it takes to watch a winning team I'd be a Chelsea fan.
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For all you JB haters on 13:03 - Feb 23 with 3343 views
They embrace one anothers' bollix?! I too thought it was weird that the Hammer said that's the kind of thing they get up to in training all the time. Explains why our team often don't seem to have a plan, if all the time is just spent tickling each others' winkies
Shit but local
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For all you JB haters on 13:23 - Feb 24 with 3014 views
Come on Cider you know very well that if our players had done the same our fans wouldn't have batted an eyelid, we would have been happy to walk away with 3 points.
When Marcus Bean handled the ball over the line against Gillingham, our fans revelled in the way we stole the points. We didn't slag Marcus off.
On Saturday our players didn't even put their arms up for a penalty when a Hull player handled the ball in the penalty area. QPR is fighting for survival and it's future, the players should do all they can to get points. I don't think people understand the true ramifications relegation will bring.
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For all you JB haters on 13:37 - Feb 24 with 3001 views
I don't expect any fans to slag off their team for using gamesmanship - you may note that I objected to the behaviour of Hull's players and not the response of their fans. Once you've invested the emotion in supporting a team, you can't easily walk away from a match thinking "I wish we hadn't got the three points."
But 1. The players aren't fans, they are professionals. I understand why, e.g. they leave a club they love if their career so dictates. By same token, they should maintain professional standards and the examples I cite breach these standards IMO
2. Specifically, I don't regard gamesmanship (I'm trying not to say "cheating") as being something that a good professional does to win a game - I think the opposite, if it's a true profession you have standards of behaviour including respect for your fellow professionals on the other team. Fans are in a slightly different position, by definition we are partisan.
3. It's one thing to say that we would have been happy to walk away with the points. As a fan you can't change what has happened on the pitch and it was the referee's job anyway. It is quite another to say you actively approve of doing anything it takes to win and another still to say that should be part of our planning. I thought your first post was, perhaps unintentionally, close to that position. On reading this one I'm not sure it's even unintentional.
I have been close to disliking the QPR team (not the club, because that is mainly us) since Warnock was sacked. There is more than one way in which QPR's future is at stake and more than one way I could lose the club I love.
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For all you JB haters on 08:11 - Feb 27 with 2772 views
......i dont like referees who are intimidated by certain managers .....-i dont like that the FA does not stick by its own rules .....i dont like that one player gets 3 game suspensions and others two .....i dont like that certain referees play to the home team
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For all you JB haters on 23:44 - Feb 27 with 2613 views
I defended JB for the Bradley Johnson red. That was a f'cking joke and I could not believe that fans turned on him .We were cheated then pure and simple. For the Citeh match Teves did a number on him and he reacted then it snowballed into madness. This one tho was so f'cking stupid. You can see the Hull players winking at each other and then high fiving each other when JB flicks at his nuts. Stupid stupid prick..
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